Both Uses of
secrete
in
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- As to your practice, if a gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce him to be an active member of the medical profession.†
Chpt 1
- Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.†
Chpt 1 *
Definition:
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(secrete as in: secrete digestive juices) produce and discharge small amounts of a substance -- especially from biological glands